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...freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning...
...gossip of the girls, interrupted only for a long, stony stare at the youth, went on with redoubled fervor; but now their theme was the bashfulness and awkwardness of Yung Thing. This subject displeased Loe; she withdrew from the crowd, followed by Sue. These two, sitting apart, conversed in sweet whispers...
...seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...felt my hand seized as by an iron grasp a moment, that forced a cry of pain from me; and when I withdrew it there were finger-marks of livid scarlet across it, - that did not fade away...
...words sounded doubly cruel upon her rosy lips. But the earl, being an Englishman, was too gentlemanly to urge her further. He bowed, smiling cynically, and withdrew...